Street Photography nominee

amateur category

Peter Stitt

Walking in the Wake: A Visual Survey of the South (Series)

DESCRIPTION

As industries have moved over seas and farms have left families, much of the American Southeast has seen a major change in parts of their cities, and many times entire towns. Growing up in the southeast and seeing the later stages of this, I have become enamored with the remnants of this past and the present visual reminders that it has produced. Walking through small towns, and sometimes large cities, there is the constant reminder of the flight from certain areas in buildings left empty from an inability to sustain. Some of these businesses are corporations that followed the "progress", and some are the locally owned places trying to stay open, if they haven't closed already. What is left in the wake of change are communities trying to stay viable and a visual landscape that is a reminder of a past that still effects the present.

AUTHOR

Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Georgia and South Carolina, Peter is a photographer based out of the greater Augusta, Georgia area. Having studied at Northeastern University and Savannah College of Art and Design, he has a strong background in photography from both commercial and artistic backgrounds. He has worked on shoots for Filene's Department Store, Ben Silver, Titleist, and taught at both Florida Community College Jacksonville and The Art Institute of Boston. After working with family for a period, he opened Artist's Local 1155, a gallery in downtown Augusta, Georgia, showing a variety of work from local and regional visual artists. After almost four years of running the gallery, he closed the doors to focus solely on his personal work. Mr. Stitt's work is a mix of street photography, urban/suburban/rural landscape, and subtle observation of the curious world that surrounds us daily. Sometimes humorous, other times emotionally driven, the work is an illustration of the unique environment that we have built for ourselves and often overlook.